Re:Woman with Immortal Cells
by sambeau on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @09:33AM
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I wonder, also, if there are more of her living cells in existence now than when she was technically 'alive'?
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"These immortal cells have multiplied to the point that if you were to weigh all of them that live today, they’d weigh about 50 million metric tons"
I would say yeah - a couple more :)
The article says 50 millon tons, this is realy realy big. It is like 10Kg (~20 pounds) per human being alive.
But according to wikipedia and [1] there are "only" 20 tons. (I think that the exact number is difficult to calculate, so 50 tons is perhaps a razonable number too.)
Still 20 tons (~ 40000 pounds) is much bigger than 50 or 100 Kg (~100 or200 pound) that is the weight of a person.
[1] http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/cancer-cells-killed-her-then...